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The LIFX bulbs announced your WiFi password to anyone who asked. This is not a breach of the bulb itself, it’s a gateway to your LAN.

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Your Zigbee light switches won’t do anything unless the machine running Home Assistant is on. Being able to control your lights while the computer isn’t running is really convenient.

Top Chinese university scraps English tests in move cheered by nationalists (www.cnn.com)

A top university in northwest China has scrapped English tests as a prerequisite for graduation, rekindling a heated debate about the role of the world’s lingua franca in the country’s education system after years of rising nationalist sentiment under leader Xi Jinping....

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There are many new technical papers that are only written in Chinese these days, especially in AI.

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When the came for the squares, I didn’t say anything because I’m not square…

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Rust has the turbofish: ::<>

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Think printers, factory machines and so on. If they run Linux and not Windows CE, it’s always an ancient kernel.

First automatic JPEG-XL cloud service (www.gumlet.com)

JPEG 's conspicuous issues like lack of transparency, animation, lossless compression and high bit depth support makes it little tough to justify it as leading format for time to come. Various attempts like WebP and AVIF are made (and are supported on modern browsers) to overcome problems of JPEG but they all also suffer some...

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No layer support? Or can that be faked by using 4 channel-chunks?

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In my company’s product, we allow users to place images into a composition and alter the colors (like tinting/colorize in Photoshop, so only globally). When doing that, the outline of the drawn image should not change color, and also there might be multiple color areas (think an image of a house where the walls have a separate color from the chimneys).

To do separate full-image manipulation, we need multiple layers. Right now they’re just a tilemap with the layers next to each other, but that doesn’t work for repeating patterns.

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In addition to a very xenophobic culture that doesn’t allow the addition of missing working-age people via immigration.

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They tried to revoke a perpetual license.

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People in the airplane industry were already wondering where Russia gets all of the replacement parts from.

Margot Robbie Shows Solidarity with Writers Guild (lemmy.world)

Margot Robbie proved she can make even the most casual look runway-ready as she took to the streets during Wednesday’s SAG-AFTRA rally. The Barbie star, 33, was a vision in an oversized white tee, putting her own stylish spin on the protest uniform. With her signature blonde locks flowing freely and chic sunnies shielding her...

anlumo ,

Game developers don’t have unions. Besides, this is a B2B conflict. Workers don’t care if it’s more expensive to publish a game.

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The biggest impact is on indies that may have very few devs. If you’re not making AAA or even AA games, it could mean closing down.

Yes, but striking doesn’t help small devs at all.

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Futurists are people who cosplay as scientists predicting stuff they have no clue about.

anlumo ,

Unity doesn’t give out perpetual licenses any more, it’s a subscription model. If you don’t like it, you can leave at any point in time, but then you also don’t have a license to distribute their engine along with your game.

The problematic part (for Unity) is that they used to have a clause in the contract that said that you could keep using the old license terms as long as you didn’t update the engine. They removed that last year, but developers who are using an older version than that should be able to have a chance at the court. The problem is just that small indie devs don’t have the money for this multi-year legal battle.

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. (arstechnica.com)

Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.::Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.

anlumo ,

There are a bunch of fundamentally different approaches to designing game engines, and every single one is very different in that regard. There’s no way to find a common denominator.

iPhone 15 Models Have 'Completely Standard' USB-C Port Without Restrictions on Accessories (www.macrumors.com)

iPhone 15 Models Have ‘Completely Standard’ USB-C Port Without Restrictions on Accessories::Apple’s new iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max are equipped with a “completely standard” USB-C port without…

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The bigger question is, will developers be able to talk to their USB-C equipment without an MFi chip?

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I think that we’ve reached the peak of that form factor. Every real change will have to deviate so much that we wouldn’t call it smartphone any more.

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On ArchLinux, many Electron apps use a central installation of Electron that is kept up to date by the package manager. That works pretty well.

Of course, snap-based distributions like Ubuntu and other systems without a proper package manager like macOS and Windows can’t do it like that.

anlumo ,

Still, nothing comes close to a native UI experience.

That’s not really well defined on Linux. It feels like every application comes with its own toolkit and its own behavior. Even on Windows, there is a mixture of three different generations of Windows UI systems (Windows XP-style, Windows 8-style, Fluent) that are completely different.

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I’m sorry to stifle your expectations, but if you’re working on that project on your own, you’re very unlikely to reach the 200k/year revenue necessary to trigger this new pricing scheme.

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They also made the announcement right after an iPhone announcement. Unfortunately, the iPhone was completely underwhelming, so the news didn’t get buried like they probably expected.

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What’s weird to me is that CEOs should know all about accounting and financials. He should have realized that this pricing model is unsustainable for most Unity developers, because many make less than what he’s asking for per install themselves.

It’s clear that professional CEOs don’t know anything about tech, but this isn’t a tech issue.

anlumo ,

I still don’t get how a guy with such brilliant insight could be an absolute moron in other areas (such as his personal medical treatment)…

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He had easily treatable cancer if diagnosed early enough (which it was). He refused treatment, because he insisted on curing himself only using his exclusively fruit-based diet.

When that didn’t help (what a surprise), he finally caved and did try to get treatment, but by then it was too late.

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There are some rumors floating around that employees did try to stop this before it went public, but they failed. I agree that they can’t do much now anyways.

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Big corporations need service contracts. If something in the engine is broken where it impacts the game in development, engineers are flown in to fix it at the customer’s site (if that’s necessary). That’s not something available with most open source tools.

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They’d sell off the IP, and somebody else would continue licensing out the engine. Development might be dead, but that doesn’t matter for already released games anyways.

If there’d be truly no successor, people could just continue using their existing Unity engine binary, since there’d be nobody to stop them.

anlumo ,

Source 2 is ancient and doesn’t even come close to modern Unity. Unity added a lot of modern stuff in the last few years (obviously) like physically-based rendering, which make a world of a difference in games.

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It’s not phoning home to the developer, but Unity.

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Well, glad that I switched away from Unity in 2016. The competition by the Unreal Engine caused some really weird business decisions back then.

anlumo ,

Bevy is a very different kind of beast. It’s basically “here’s the ECS, have fun!” while it rides into the sunset.

My next project will use bevy, but mostly because its API is so ridiculously small that I can map it entirely into my own engine (which then exposes the ECS through my own API). That would be a lifetime’s task with Unity (don’t know enough about Godot to say definitely, but I bet it’s the same, since it has the same architecture).

anlumo ,

Apple produces hardware at a scale not imaginable to mortal people. When they want to use a chip in their phone, they just buy up the chip’s factory’s entire production run for the next few years.

Apple was the only company that had no shortages during the chip troubles of 2020/21/22. That’s because they plan ahead. They have a logistics person at the helm, and it’s very visible.

All of this naturally leads to ridiculous planning cycles.

anlumo ,

The word you’re looking for is “federated”.

Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates (stackdiary.com)

This affects all browsers and not just Chrome, as the media falsely reported it. Mozilla just rolled out a fix, and Brave is looking into it. This bug is likely related to the “zero-click” iOS 0day that was reported by Citizenlab last week.

anlumo ,

There is optimization. Every frame in the gif can define a rectangle it’s drawn in on top of the previous image. This works fine for reduced color animations (like cartoons), but of course breaks completely for videos.

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Same thing, the medium is just copper instead of air. That’s why they need a ton of shielding.

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He has to pay back his debts, and Musk likes to be paid in praise.

Perl still relevant in 2023/24?

hi, i was interested if perl is still relevant in this day and age. Perl has been on the decline for a very long time now. Perl 6 (now named 'raku) not being backwards compatible with perl 5 code made the already small perl community even smaller by splitting it in half. A good example is lisp with it’s thousands of different...

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It’s punch card-column aware, if you’re talking about that.

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Nothing has zero risk attached. We’re pumping radioactive material into the atmosphere all the time in coal power plants, and nobody bats an eye. This isn’t even a failure condition, this is just normal.

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As certified by Boeing?

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To be fair, based on his companies the odds of that bet are quite good.

Are Internet boards and Forums dead

i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...

anlumo ,

Isn’t lemmy basically that, but with modern technology? PHPBB was a nightmare for a sysadmin.

anlumo ,

Unfortunately federation doesn’t work with Lemmy. I have to create a new account on nearly every instance, because they defederate all the time due to spam and CP issues.

So, it’s a regular forum again.

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It’s an inherent problem with the way federation is designed in the Fediverse. Since all content is replicated, this includes stuff like CP. If the admins wouldn’t defederate after learning about it, they’d willingly host it, making them legally liable.

anlumo ,

These forums never were well organized.

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Lemmy would have to fix federation first, until then it’s just modern forum software.

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The software was so bad that if you didn’t keep up with emergency security fixes for even a week, the forum would instantly be taken over by someone. Being hacked was the natural state of that software.

Black holes keep 'burping up' stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don't know why (www.livescience.com)

Black holes keep ‘burping up’ stars they destroyed years earlier, and astronomers don’t know why::Years after ripping stars to shreds, 24 black holes suddenly flared up with radio waves in inexplicable ‘burping’ bouts. Half of all star-killing black holes may experience the same.

anlumo ,

Time slows down as the mass approaches the center, so it just can never reach it. It’s stuck in time dilation approaching infinity.

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